If the next clue mentions lutefisk then I'm there. Otherwise, I'm not sold. Two anagrams in one hunt both mentioning the same park seems way suspicious. We've been led astray by anagram madness before.
The suspense is killing me! I want to go out but I've promised myself I'd wait till at least 2 because it is "suppose" to be when it gets to the high for the day...between 2-4 I'm going out. Last night was a bit much for my lungs to handle took some crappy over the counter inhaler and feel sicker today for it...I'm at SH
Be careful, L & A; I am just getting over pneumonia. Had it over Christmas. First x-ray didn't find it, a CAT scan found it. Hope you feel better and watch for pneumonia if your lungs continue to hurt!
Queen with my asthma issues I typically end up with Bronchitis never had pnemonia yet but I take my lung issues seriously. Especially after my mom was admitted to the hospital a couple years back with Pnemonia with a blood oxygen count on 54%....she refused to go to the Dr until it was almost to late Dr's couldn't believe she was still concious.
Remember it was Box who wrote the clues where the first line of each clue spelled out C-O-M-O-I-S-N-O-T the spot' in 1996. Purposely misleading us early hunters to the wrong park.it wasn't until clue 9 that we got not.
I absolutely love the idea of word play / anagrams in theses clues and tear them apart looking for them. I'm jealous what others have found faster than I could. I've actually "Gridded Out" the first (and last) letters of every word in every clue looking for something that way... nada.
That being said, I still have problems with a lot of people translating portions of those clues a certain way. This kind of tunnel vision is what drove the masses to Harriet when it was really at Como. The Clue describing the two domes that year dealt with two street signs and NO ONE got that right.
The detention / gov't center off of Lafayette - at it's closest point as the crow flies - is still 150 yards away from the Bruce Vento Trailhead (the southernmost entrance to Swede) - it's about 1/3 mile to drive it. You cannot see it from anywhere in the park. Other buildings stand between it and the park. Yes, that is where the convention riff-raff was detained, but a lot of the times most 'police' clues line up with a cop shop or fire hall that is ADJACENT to the property - Lafayette is NOT.
I keep trying to suggest the idea Clue 4 is describing what the Puck is stashed IN or WITH - mainly a campaign button or bumper sticker or something like that. If that idea is true, then Phalen Creek / Swede Hollow goes a lot lower down the list. It seems like no one wants to bite that idea right now.
"All We See Was Done Naturally" - that is a declarative statement. To me that sounds like a clear statement from the hider standing at the spot. If you can still see houses and concrete - you are not in the right spot. Listen to Box and Millet describe how they took notes - they would stand at a spot and describe exactly what was there - "two steps one way and it wouldn't work".
"The early and consistent support of the McKnight Foundation has also greatly contributed to the Lower Phalen Creek Project's success, as has support from an array of other public and private funders."
In reference to the funding of the Bruce Vento project.
That could be ... I know when we were driving around the above section of the park near where the mansion used to be we saw a house that had one of it's old tree trunks carved into the Hamm's bear... cute must've been at least 6 feet tall. Didn't notice a lion...didn't know that was the mascot for Stroh's.
I work for the post office..... and the numbered gridding system is a big deal because that is how all gov't services find places - police, fire dept not to mention all deliveries. People who are used to working with the grid can tell right off the bat what part of the city you're in just from the house number.
I mentioned the beast 666 address grid thing a couple of days ago and noone bit then either.
All I know is that my immediate neighbor to the south has 211 for an address, I'm 219 and the neighbor to my north is 221. That's a big difference between two neighbors. I just don't see them writing a clue about an assumption. That's just my take anyway.
That rec center out by 3M - that year they used a reference to a street address across from the park, so that has been done before.
And could be done again.
That would have been late 90s, I think.
Conway Park is I think the name of the place.
I haven't slogged so if someone else made this point already, I didn't see it. Have very little access to computer this trip, so have been lucky to read the clues and the most recent pages posted.
I like the cracker jack box - or maybe a jack in the box??? - noodle.
Also dankness vale and endless knave have almost the same letters in them, if that works out to mean anything...
Just my thoughts. I'm off to search for Hawkeye - he was sighted last night out by Roberts WI again.
Have to head home to MI tomorrow so yet another year when I'm not going to get to hunt the puck. I did buy and register a button, but I have yet to pick it up, but, oh well...
The address numbers are very deliberately assigned. I noticed that right away when I was working in the circulation department at the SPPP. Another reason I couldn't hunt the medallion when I was young.
Funny: a poster over at the PP boards goes to Yahoo Answers and asks people all over to help find the Med. Here is a great reply to her pleas for help:
Q."Can someone figure out what type of place this object might be hidden in?"
A."Talk about lazy. Do your own noodling! And do you really expect random people all over the country to be able to solve it when thousands of people in st. paul are looking for it everyday? Please....
basically any numbers in the 600's should be between 6th and 7th st but we all know that they renumbered the streets at one time in the downtown area but didn't renumber the buildings so you have this goofy set up where 345 Cedar st sits between 5th and 6th. :eyeroll:
So technically the address should be in the 700's since 7th st in on the south side but the old numbers still exist.
You know ... the irish designed the streets here. he he :goofy:
Boxmeyer did a huge article in his book on a "cracker Jack" restaurant on Payne ave that he adored.Serlin's cafe.
http://books.google.com/books?id=StPut_uzGYUC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=don+boxmeyer+and+up+front&source=bl&ots=t5UafFc3F1&sig=_yzp3jI_BAwYMMB1_tsRYov0UZ4&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPA83,M1
Not sure if a poodle eat there or a knave!
And then I go back to thinking is it just that this year's hunt is devoted to Box and nothing more than that honor...
But either way I have really enjoyed reading his columns and parts of his books.
I bet Inasuitcase slept with that plate last night!
and the jester sang for the king and queen in the coat he borrowed from james dean.
drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.
i'm back out in left field again. but that could be an obscure harriet reference.
i love it!
HaHa, Evil!
The text from the Book of Job 40 (Judaica Press Bible) is as follows:
15 Behold now the behemoth that I have made with you; he eats grass like cattle.
    16 Behold now his strength is in his loins and his power is in the navel of his belly.
    17 His tail hardens like a cedar; the sinews of his tendons are knit together.
    18 His limbs are as strong as copper, his bones as a load of iron.
    19 His is the first of God's ways; [only] his Maker can draw His sword [against him].
    20 For the mountains bear food for him, and all the beasts of the field play there.
    21 Does he lie under the shadows, in the covert of the reeds and the swamp?
    22 Do the shadows cover him as his shadow? Do the willows of the brook surround him?
    23 Behold, he plunders the river, and [he] does not harden; he trusts that he will draw the Jordan into his mouth.
Yes they can
Remember it was Box who wrote the clues where the first line of each clue spelled out C-O-M-O-I-S-N-O-T the spot' in 1996. Purposely misleading us early hunters to the wrong park.it wasn't until clue 9 that we got not.
I absolutely love the idea of word play / anagrams in theses clues and tear them apart looking for them. I'm jealous what others have found faster than I could. I've actually "Gridded Out" the first (and last) letters of every word in every clue looking for something that way... nada.
That being said, I still have problems with a lot of people translating portions of those clues a certain way. This kind of tunnel vision is what drove the masses to Harriet when it was really at Como. The Clue describing the two domes that year dealt with two street signs and NO ONE got that right.
The detention / gov't center off of Lafayette - at it's closest point as the crow flies - is still 150 yards away from the Bruce Vento Trailhead (the southernmost entrance to Swede) - it's about 1/3 mile to drive it. You cannot see it from anywhere in the park. Other buildings stand between it and the park. Yes, that is where the convention riff-raff was detained, but a lot of the times most 'police' clues line up with a cop shop or fire hall that is ADJACENT to the property - Lafayette is NOT.
I keep trying to suggest the idea Clue 4 is describing what the Puck is stashed IN or WITH - mainly a campaign button or bumper sticker or something like that. If that idea is true, then Phalen Creek / Swede Hollow goes a lot lower down the list. It seems like no one wants to bite that idea right now.
"All We See Was Done Naturally" - that is a declarative statement. To me that sounds like a clear statement from the hider standing at the spot. If you can still see houses and concrete - you are not in the right spot. Listen to Box and Millet describe how they took notes - they would stand at a spot and describe exactly what was there - "two steps one way and it wouldn't work".
"The early and consistent support of the McKnight Foundation has also greatly contributed to the Lower Phalen Creek Project's success, as has support from an array of other public and private funders."
In reference to the funding of the Bruce Vento project.
http://www.tpl.org/tier3_cdl.cfm?content_item_id=10505&folder_id=2185/
I mentioned the beast 666 address grid thing a couple of days ago and noone bit then either.
It's an heraldic rampant lion with crown, orb, and scepter, gold on
a red field.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroh_Brewery_Company
And could be done again.
That would have been late 90s, I think.
Conway Park is I think the name of the place.
I haven't slogged so if someone else made this point already, I didn't see it. Have very little access to computer this trip, so have been lucky to read the clues and the most recent pages posted.
I like the cracker jack box - or maybe a jack in the box??? - noodle.
Also dankness vale and endless knave have almost the same letters in them, if that works out to mean anything...
Just my thoughts. I'm off to search for Hawkeye - he was sighted last night out by Roberts WI again.
Have to head home to MI tomorrow so yet another year when I'm not going to get to hunt the puck. I did buy and register a button, but I have yet to pick it up, but, oh well...
Good luck to all Coolerheads!
Ha, true L&A.
Googling for 666 Payne Avenue got me this:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=666+Payne+Avenue+55106&sll=44.961411,-93.075966&sspn=0.010203,0.019312&ie=UTF8&ll=44.961367,-93.076&spn=0.010203,0.019312&t=h&z=16&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=44.961411,-93.075966&panoid=w89uS5DU0hL-MpoimQFzqg&cbp=12,211.13376099070967,,0,5
I think it could be some kind of a reference point.
Although, I *might* stop by Swede Hollow on my way back from the Hudson area this afternoon...
Q."Can someone figure out what type of place this object might be hidden in?"
A."Talk about lazy. Do your own noodling! And do you really expect random people all over the country to be able to solve it when thousands of people in st. paul are looking for it everyday? Please....
BTW, its in Battle Creek"
So technically the address should be in the 700's since 7th st in on the south side but the old numbers still exist.
You know ... the irish designed the streets here. he he :goofy: